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"The
Breaking Point" Time Magazine Dec. 31, 1945 This is an article about some of the problems railroads were having to deal with at the holiday season of 1945. Between the returning soldiers from the WWII Pacific Theater and some terrible weather, the railroad system in America was severely strained. |
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"Pullman
Sold" Time Magazine Dec. 31, 1945 This is an article about the sale of the The Pullman sleeping car company and the disagreement between the courts and the Justice department as to who should be able to buy it. |
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"Why
Shouldn't America Have Through Sleeping Car Service from Coast to Coast" Time Magazine Dec. 10, 1945 This was an ad taken out by the Chesapeake & Ohio and Nickel Plate railroads as a "pre-emptive" strike in their attempt to gain support for their bid to buy the Pullman Sleeping Car Company, and/or to provide coast to coast sleeper car services in case their bid for Pullman failed (which it did a couple weeks later). See the previous article for more details. |
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